- Economic history, Economics, Finance, History
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters.
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Plot-driven, epic, cool and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Niall Ferguson
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, ALLEN LANE, Penguin Press
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9781440654015
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Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British historian from Scotland. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His specialties are international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views. - Wikipedia
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